Page 60 - Among the camps, or, Young people's stories of the war

picket line, and she pointed them out to Kittykin, who
blinked and yawned as if she did not care the least bit if
they were.
Next morning a small squadron of cavalry came galloping
by. A body of the enemy had beer seen, and they were

going to learn what it meant. In a little While they came
back.
" T h e enemy/' they said, "w ere advancing, and there
would probably be a skirmish right there immediately”

As they rode by, they urged Evelyn's mamma either to
leave the house at once or to go down into the basement,
where they might be safe from the bullets. Then they gal­
loped on across the held to get the rest of their men, who
were in the trenches beyond. Before they reached there a
lot of men appeared on the edge of the wood in front of the

house. No one could tell how many they were ; but the sun
gleamed on their arms, and there was evidently a good force.
A t first they were on horseback ; but there was a " Bop 1
b o p !” from the trendies m die field behind the house, and

they rode back, and did not come out any more. Next
morning, however, they too had dug a trench. These,
Evelyn heard some one say, were a picket line. About
eleven o'clock they came out into the held, and they seemed
to have spread themselves out behind a little rise or knoll

in front of the house. Mammy's teeth were just chattering,
and she went to moaning and saying her prayers as hard
as she could, and E velyn ’s mamma told her to take Evelyn